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Psyche: The Cult of Souls and Belief in Immortality among the Greeks

Rohde, Erwin · Public domain text

326,424 words · about 22 h 52 min to read

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The text of Psyche: The Cult of Souls and Belief in Immortality among the Greeks comes from Project Gutenberg e-text #66555. It is public domain in the United States. Translated by W. B. (William Bernard) Hillis. Project Gutenberg’s header and license text are removed, and RedLectern sets the text out for reading on screen; no words of the book are rewritten or summarized. More formats (EPUB, Kindle) · How RedLectern is built

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Author
Erwin Rohde (1845–1898)
Language
English
Subjects
Greece › Religion
Length
326,424 words · about 22 h 52 min
Sections
22 reader sections · Table of contents

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Contents (22)
  1. Opening about 1 min
  2. Part I about 1 min
  3. Part II about 15 min
  4. Part I under 1 min
  5. Chapter I about 1 h 45 min
  6. II. ISLANDS OF THE BLEST about 1 h 6 min
  7. III. CAVE DEITIES: SUBTERRANEAN TRANSLATION about 59 min
  8. IV. HEROES about 1 h 30 min
  9. V. THE CULT OF SOULS about 2 h 18 min
  10. VI. THE ELEUSINIAN MYSTERIES about 37 min
  11. VII. IDEAS OF THE FUTURE LIFE about 34 min
  12. Part II under 1 min
  13. VIII. ORIGINS OF THE BELIEF IN IMMORTALITY about 1 h 5 min
  14. IX. DIONYSIAC RELIGION IN GREECE about 2 h
  15. X. THE ORPHICS about 1 h
  16. XI. THE PHILOSOPHERS about 1 h 46 min
  17. XII. THE LAY AUTHORS about 1 h 57 min
  18. XIII. PLATO about 58 min
  19. I. PHILOSOPHY about 32 min
  20. Part I about 40 min
  21. II. POPULAR BELIEF about 46 min
  22. Part II about 3 h 2 min

The opening of Part I

CHAP. I. BELIEFS ABOUT THE SOUL AND CULT OF SOULS IN THE HOMERIC POEMS . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3 II. ISLANDS OF THE BLEST. Translation . . . . . . . . . 55 III. CAVE DEITIES. SUBTERRANEAN Translation . . . . . . 88 IV. HEROES . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 115 V. THE CULT OF SOULS . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 156 I. Cult of Chthonic Deities . . . . . . . . . . . 158 II. Funeral ceremonies and worship of the dead . . 162 III. Traces of the Cult of Souls in the Blood Feud and Satisfaction for murder . . . . . . . 174 VI. THE ELEUSINIAN MYSTERIES . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 217 VII.

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